Betty: You go further into condemnation. What good does that achieve? It doesn’t achieve any good. It actually makes you worse. So, can you learn from that? It’s like “Oh, wait a minute here. The Lord is warning me to work on self-condemnation, and instead I’m just getting further into it. So, I’m in rebellion, and it’s not helping. It’s only making things worse, so I better stop this rebelliousness, and go back and do what the Lord is telling me to do.” 

Stop self-condemnation. Fast from those kinds of judgments, because all you’re doing is Satan’s work putting yourself down, instead of turning to the Lord and asking Him to teach you how to get out of the mess that has occurred. You have to make positive changes that will help you and your children. Putting yourself down is just making it worse. How’d you get in that place? You opened the door through rebellion. And if you open the door to rebellion, who comes in to help? Satan. It’s not the good angels and the saints, because they don’t want anything to do with rebellion. So, the grace was that you got the inspiration to fast from self-condemnation this Lent as something you’ll give to the Lord. You need to open to allow the Lord to heal you and to bring about change, rather than picking on yourself.

When you get into a messy situation, ask the Lord to teach you how to get out of the mess rather than go into self-condemnation.